Implications of the hypobaric cabin environment during commercial air travel for passenger fitness to fly.

Thorax

Aerospace Medicine and Physiology Research Group, Centre for Human and Applied Physiological Sciences, King's College London, London, Greater London, UK.

Published: September 2024

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